Prepare your guilds and sharpen your swords/fangs/arrows/teeth/magic... wait no, you can't sharpen magic. Uhh... GET READY because, the next Guild PVP Grand Tourney will begin next Thursday. You must be in a guild before the event starts in order to earn trophies for that guild.

This will be a competitive event, but will have thresholds for guilds that are ranked outside the top 50. We will also be running a special season that removes PVP streaks starting on Wednesday, as well as several special buffs and debuffs to shake up the metagame!

Because I'm not certain as to why running this event before fixing the combat system is a good idea.

We have responded to the feedback from the last pvp event by patching code that caused crashes, ensuring that the error that caused tickets to disappear will not happen again, and working with the Meta Focus group to increase the impact of the PVP buffs/debuffs.

Is the current combat system as good as we hope the new one will be? No, but we don't think that simply abandoning PVP events in the meantime is necessary. The last PVP event's problems were mostly technical (tickets going away, some crashing issues, etc.) and not design based (ticket shop formatting, using trophies as the points, etc.), and with the technical problems fixed, we are hoping for a smooth event that everyone can enjoy.

Whatever these buffs/debuffs are, I think we’d all appreciate it if they actually made Shade irrelevant for a little while. So sick of him being the start of every.viable.meta.team. It doesn’t even need to target all casters. Just have a week long effect of “Shade does 10% of his normal damage” and you’ll suddenly see lots of new setups.